programming, messaging (JMS) An API for accessing

enterprise messaging systems from Java programs. Java

Message Service, part of the J2EE suite, provides standard

APIs that Java developers can use to access the common

features of enterprise message systems. JMS supports the

publish/subscribe and point-to-point models and allows the

creation of message types consisting of arbitrary Java

objects. JMS provides support for administration, security,

error handling, and recovery, optimisation, distributed

transactions, message ordering, message acknowledgment, and

more.